Outside the USA "pickle" can refer to anything that is pickled, not just cucumbers. In India for example there are hundreds of varieties of pickles (and they are all delicious).

The show has a single plot that repeats on a loop every 4-5 episodes. It is still absolutely worth watching for the characters, locations, dialog, acting, humor and really everything else.

I've read some of his adult fiction and it's...fine. The only novelty is that it is written by a famous children's author. Doesn't have too much going for it beyond that.

By episode 3 Kendall will have self destructed, Roman will be emotionally manipulated and flipped by his dad, Shiv will try some big power play thinking she's the shit but it will blow up in her face.

He obviously wasn't racing against Olympic-tier talent, but stuff like this makes you wonder how much better the country would be at track & field events if they were a priority for top-tier high school athletes who instead go into professional football and basketball by default.

There should be a list of how many versions of this exact map there are.

Northeastern and western Democrat states on one end, deep south Republican states on the other. Just change the topic and the scale.

Rising costs of living? Stagnant wages? Unaffordable housing, education and healthcare? Increasing wealth inequality? Outdated and grueling work culture?

Nah, young people aren't having kids because they aren't romantic enough. Makes sense.

Drivers make decent money with delivery apps. And they are adults who can figure out whether a job is worth it to them or not. You don’t have to push your morality on others. Let people drive if they want, and let people order if they want.

It depends. Lots of companies aim for 0 profit, because why pay high taxes and give money to shareholders when you can invest it back into the business instead? And it is even more relevant for high growth companies when additional customers are more valuable than money in the bank. Amazon famously did this for like two decades.

It could have been Mbappe

Not sure where you are from, but in every country I have seen (including USA, where this post is likely from), you can tip $0 if you want. Where does Uber mandate a tip?

UPS drivers are unionized and salaried. The rest are contractors.

Well, tip data not earnings data.

Google hired 50K+ new employees during the pandemic, and obviously didn't add equivalent office space to make up for it. Now those extra ~32K employees (after the layoffs) need desks.

I don't think being able to pull that dog's weight was a problem either way.

The problem is that it's a self fulfilling prophecy.

Hindenburg shorts a company and then publishes a damaging report against them. People go "omg Hindenburg published a report, that means the company's share price could fall, so I should sell my shares before that happens". Because everyone thinks this way the share price falls by a lot, and Hindenburg makes a ton of money on their short position. Everyone then goes "wow their report was perfect". After a while they repeat this with another company with the same results.

Nothing they did was illegal, but it's still exploiting the workings of the market. It doesn't matter whether the report is correct or not, nobody is going to read it anyways. And ultimately it is opinion not fact – they say so themselves. What matters is how people react to it.

Radiologist, living in a fancy suburb and driving a Tesla, two young kids, neighbors say they were a "beautiful, idyllic family, no indication of issues", wife apparently had no clue as well...and then he randomly decides to drive his family off a cliff. You can never really know WTF is going on in a person's head. Hope everyone (especially the kids) can get all the help they need to recover and move on.

A GPU is essentially a second CPU for your computer. The difference is that while a CPU is good at any task you can throw at it, a GPU is really good at exactly one thing – performing the kind of complex mathematical calculations that are used to render graphics. A CPU could technically perform these operations, but it would just be a lot slower at it.

When you are playing a game that has fancy HD graphics and needs to run at a high FPS, the CPU can offload the rendering to the GPU and the GPU sends the final frames to the display directly, resulting in much faster performance.

1. You could copy the design, layout etc. of a website but a bulk of the functionality is usually happening on the server side. You have no way to copy that.
2. Though you can copy it, the content is still copyrighted. A company can choose to sue you and get your site shut down if they want.

In a world without insurance, you'd go to a doctor when you had a problem and they'd fix you and send you a bill, which you'd pay in full.

Insurance adds a layer to that, where you pay them a fixed amount every month and in turn they pay the doctor's bills.

Rather than paying 100% of everything, the insurance companies have certain rules – you have a deductible that you must meet yourself first, they will only cover certain procedures, they will only cover a max amount or percentage for each procedure and you must pay the rest yourself, and more.

Now, insurance companies also have tie-ups with certain doctors and hospitals. These doctors will have special rates just for your insurance provider, and so your insurance will cover more of the cost than normal. These are called in-network doctors.

This doesn't mean that out of network doctors won't be covered at all, but your insurance will just have stricter rules for them.

San Francisco has a population of 815K. San Jose, which is at the other end of the Bay, has a population of 983K. All of Santa Clara county has a population of ~2 million. People in the bay area are heavily concentrated around the south and south east. The city of SF is very sparse in comparison.

Plus, until recently you had the Raiders just across in Oakland which further made a downtown SF team redundant.

While 49ers are far from San Francisco, being in Santa Clara puts them in the heart of the bay area and overall closer to a lot more people than they otherwise would be in downtown San Francisco. It's just the name that's wrong (but of course they don't want to change that due to the team history and brand).

Doesn’t matter which country, culture, time period you are in. Mothers smacking their kids with footwear is a universal experience.

Not really. It happens when someone at the station fucks up.

Because roasting people to death on an electric chair or painfully botching executions with an illicit cocktail of drugs is so much more humane...